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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +00007What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 2?
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10*Release date: XX-XXX-2006*
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12Core and builtins
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Martin v. Löwis0bc2ab92006-04-10 20:28:17 +000015- Patch #837242: id() of any Python object always gives a positive
16 number, which might be a long integer. PyLong_FromVoidPtr and
17 PyLong_AsVoidPtr have been changed accordingly.
18
Anthony Baxter82201742006-04-09 15:07:40 +000019- Python on OS X 10.3 and above now uses dlopen() (via dynload_shlib.c)
20 to load extension modules and now provides the dl module. As a result,
21 sys.setdlopenflags() now works correctly on these systems. (SF patch
22 #1454844)
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000025Extension Modules
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27
Gregory P. Smith7f5b6f42006-04-08 07:10:51 +000028- Fix bsddb.db.DBError derived exceptions so they can be unpickled.
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000030Library
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Phillip J. Eby47032112006-04-11 01:07:43 +000033- The warnings, linecache, inspect, traceback, site, and doctest modules
34 were updated to work correctly with modules imported from zipfiles or
35 via other PEP 302 __loader__ objects.
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Martin v. Löwis17de8ff2006-04-10 15:55:37 +000037- Patch #1467770: Reduce usage of subprocess._active to processes which
38 the application hasn't waited on.
39
Martin v. Löwisb04dee92006-04-10 08:34:21 +000040- Patch #1462222: Fix Tix.Grid.
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Neal Norwitza31bf182006-04-09 03:35:43 +000042- Fix exception when doing glob.glob('anything*/')
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000044Build
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Martin v. Löwis10acfd02006-04-10 12:39:36 +000047- Patch #1429775: Link extension modules with the shared libpython.
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Anthony Baxter51bcb682006-04-05 14:51:42 +000049C API
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52Tests
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55Documentation
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Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +000060What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
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62
Anthony Baxterebed3f62006-04-03 15:03:44 +000063*Release date: 05-APR-2006*
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +000064
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +000065Core and builtins
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67
Martin v. Löwisea62d252006-04-03 10:56:49 +000068- Bug #1421664: sys.stderr.encoding is now set to the same value as
69 sys.stdout.encoding.
70
Neal Norwitz92e212f2006-04-03 04:48:37 +000071- __import__ accepts keyword arguments.
72
Georg Brandlccadf842006-03-31 18:54:53 +000073- Patch #1460496: round() now accepts keyword arguments.
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Anthony Baxter262c00a2006-03-30 10:53:17 +000075- Fixed bug #1459029 - unicode reprs were double-escaped.
76
Hye-Shik Changd478f342006-03-23 12:32:36 +000077- Patch #1396919: The system scope threads are reenabled on FreeBSD
78 5.4 and later versions.
79
Neal Norwitze98ccf62006-03-23 05:39:47 +000080- Bug #1115379: Compiling a Unicode string with an encoding declaration
81 now gives a SyntaxError.
82
Georg Brandlabd1ff82006-03-18 07:59:59 +000083- Previously, Python code had no easy way to access the contents of a
84 cell object. Now, a ``cell_contents`` attribute has been added
85 (closes patch #1170323).
86
Tim Peterscf79aac2006-03-16 01:14:46 +000087- Patch #1123430: Python's small-object allocator now returns an arena to
88 the system ``free()`` when all memory within an arena becomes unused
89 again. Prior to Python 2.5, arenas (256KB chunks of memory) were never
90 freed. Some applications will see a drop in virtual memory size now,
91 especially long-running applications that, from time to time, temporarily
92 use a large number of small objects. Note that when Python returns an
93 arena to the platform C's ``free()``, there's no guarantee that the
94 platform C will in turn return that memory to the operating system. The
95 effect of the patch is to stop making that impossible, and in tests it
96 appears to be effective at least on Microsoft C and gcc-based systems.
97 Thanks to Evan Jones for hard work and patience.
98
Georg Brandl533ff6f2006-03-08 18:09:27 +000099- Patch #1434038: property() now uses the getter's docstring if there is
100 no "doc" argument given. This makes it possible to legitimately use
101 property() as a decorator to produce a read-only property.
102
Guido van Rossum9aa37ab2006-03-07 18:54:08 +0000103- PEP 357, patch 1436368: add an __index__ method to int/long and a matching
104 nb_index slot to the PyNumberMethods struct. The slot is consulted instead
105 of requiring an int or long in slicing and a few other contexts, enabling
106 other objects (e.g. Numeric Python's integers) to be used as slice indices.
107
Neal Norwitz995acdf2006-03-07 05:01:00 +0000108- Fixed various bugs reported by Coverity's Prevent tool.
109
Brett Cannonbf364092006-03-01 04:25:17 +0000110- PEP 352, patch #1104669: Make exceptions new-style objects. Introduced the
111 new exception base class, BaseException, which has a new message attribute.
112 KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit to directly inherit from BaseException now.
113 Raising a string exception now raises a DeprecationWarning.
114
Thomas Woutersfb609f42006-02-28 16:37:25 +0000115- Patch #1438387, PEP 328: relative and absolute imports. Imports can now be
116 explicitly relative, using 'from .module import name' to mean 'from the same
117 package as this module is in. Imports without dots still default to the
118 old relative-then-absolute, unless 'from __future__ import
119 absolute_import' is used.
120
Brett Cannona7446e32006-02-27 23:39:10 +0000121- Properly check if 'warnings' raises an exception (usually when a filter set
122 to "error" is triggered) when raising a warning for raising string
123 exceptions.
124
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000125- CO_GENERATOR_ALLOWED is no longer defined. This behavior is the default.
Neal Norwitz0023a2f2006-02-27 23:24:48 +0000126 The name was removed from Include/code.h.
127
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000128- PEP 308: conditional expressions were added: (x if cond else y).
Neal Norwitzeb651252006-02-27 16:47:12 +0000129
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000130- Patch 1433928:
131 - The copy module now "copies" function objects (as atomic objects).
132 - dict.__getitem__ now looks for a __missing__ hook before raising
133 KeyError.
134
Tim Peters84ef21c2006-02-28 20:39:06 +0000135- PEP 343: with statement implemented. Needs ``from __future__ import
136 with_statement``. Use of 'with' as a variable will generate a warning.
137 Use of 'as' as a variable will also generate a warning (unless it's
Neal Norwitz055ec242006-02-28 20:06:49 +0000138 part of an import statement).
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +0000139 The following objects have __context__ methods:
140 - The built-in file type.
141 - The thread.LockType type.
142 - The following types defined by the threading module:
143 Lock, RLock, Condition, Semaphore, BoundedSemaphore.
144 - The decimal.Context class.
Guido van Rossumc2e20742006-02-27 22:32:47 +0000145
Marc-André Lemburgfe4b34c2006-02-19 15:22:22 +0000146- Fix the encodings package codec search function to only search
147 inside its own package. Fixes problem reported in patch #1433198.
148
149 Note: Codec packages should implement and register their own
150 codec search function. PEP 100 has the details.
151
Martin v. Löwis18e16552006-02-15 17:27:45 +0000152- PEP 353: Using ssize_t as the index type.
153
Neal Norwitzfc76d632006-01-10 06:03:13 +0000154- Patch #1400181, fix unicode string formatting to not use the locale.
155 This is how string objects work. u'%f' could use , instead of .
156 for the decimal point. Now both strings and unicode always use periods.
157
Neal Norwitz671b9e32006-01-09 07:07:12 +0000158- Bug #1244610, #1392915, fix build problem on OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8.
159 configure would break checking curses.h.
160
Georg Brandlcd4d1e82005-12-27 17:37:07 +0000161- Bug #959576: The pwd module is now builtin. This allows Python to be
162 built on UNIX platforms without $HOME set.
163
Neal Norwitzc10978f2005-12-19 06:07:16 +0000164- Bug #1072182, fix some potential problems if characters are signed.
165
Neal Norwitz5d0ad502005-12-19 04:27:42 +0000166- Bug #889500, fix line number on SyntaxWarning for global declarations.
167
Neal Norwitzdb83eb32005-12-18 05:29:30 +0000168- Bug #1378022, UTF-8 files with a leading BOM crashed the interpreter.
169
Neal Norwitze7214a12005-12-18 05:03:17 +0000170- Support for converting hex strings to floats no longer works.
171 This was not portable. float('0x3') now raises a ValueError.
172
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000173- Patch #1382163: Expose Subversion revision number to Python. New C API
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000174 function Py_GetBuildNumber(). New attribute sys.subversion. Build number
Barry Warsaw2a38a862005-12-18 01:27:35 +0000175 is now displayed in interactive prompt banner.
176
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000177- Implementation of PEP 341 - Unification of try/except and try/finally.
178 "except" clauses can now be written together with a "finally" clause in
Neal Norwitz11ca77e2005-12-17 22:24:12 +0000179 one try statement instead of two nested ones. Patch #1355913.
Georg Brandlfa166682005-12-17 21:45:17 +0000180
Hye-Shik Chang835b2432005-12-17 04:38:31 +0000181- Bug #1379994: Builtin unicode_escape and raw_unicode_escape codec
182 now encodes backslash correctly.
183
Martin v. Löwisb45b3152005-11-28 17:34:23 +0000184- Patch #1350409: Work around signal handling bug in Visual Studio 2005.
185
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000186- Bug #1281408: Py_BuildValue now works correctly even with unsigned longs
Georg Brandlf06e30a2005-11-24 15:37:42 +0000187 and long longs.
188
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000189- SF Bug #1350188, "setdlopenflags" leads to crash upon "import"
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000190 It was possible for dlerror() to return a NULL pointer, so
191 it will now use a default error message in this case.
Neal Norwitz67715f02005-11-09 06:59:35 +0000192
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000193- Replaced most Unicode charmap codecs with new ones using the
194 new Unicode translate string feature in the builtin charmap
195 codec; the codecs were created from the mapping tables available
196 at ftp.unicode.org and contain a few updates (e.g. the Mac OS
197 encodings now include a mapping for the Apple logo)
198
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000199- Added a few more codecs for Mac OS encodings
Marc-André Lemburga5bafc42005-10-23 13:43:40 +0000200
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000201- Sped up some Unicode operations.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000202
Martin v. Löwisbd260da2006-02-26 19:42:26 +0000203- A new AST parser implementation was completed. The abstract
204 syntax tree is available for read-only (non-compile) access
Martin v. Löwis577b5b92006-02-27 15:23:19 +0000205 to Python code; an _ast module was added.
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000206
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000207- SF bug #1167751: fix incorrect code being produced for generator expressions.
Neal Norwitz16af7342005-10-21 06:25:33 +0000208 The following code now raises a SyntaxError: foo(a = i for i in range(10))
209
Neal Norwitz708e51a2005-10-03 04:48:15 +0000210- SF Bug #976608: fix SystemError when mtime of an imported file is -1.
211
Neal Norwitz11bd1192005-10-03 00:54:56 +0000212- SF Bug #887946: fix segfault when redirecting stdin from a directory.
213 Provide a warning when a directory is passed on the command line.
214
Neal Norwitz40d37812005-10-02 01:48:49 +0000215- Fix segfault with invalid coding.
216
217- SF bug #772896: unknown encoding results in MemoryError.
218
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000219- All iterators now have a Boolean value of True. Formerly, some iterators
Raymond Hettinger6b27cda2005-09-24 21:23:05 +0000220 supported a __len__() method which evaluated to False when the iterator
221 was empty.
222
Guido van Rossum630db602005-09-20 18:49:54 +0000223- On 64-bit platforms, when __len__() returns a value that cannot be
224 represented as a C int, raise OverflowError.
225
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000226- test__locale is skipped on OS X < 10.4 (only partial locale support is
Walter Dörwald6611a8b2005-10-09 19:28:35 +0000227 present).
Skip Montanarof8948ca2005-09-19 03:54:46 +0000228
Georg Brandl80bbf3f2005-09-14 19:38:29 +0000229- SF bug #893549: parsing keyword arguments was broken with a few format
230 codes.
231
Guido van Rossum8ee3e5a2005-09-14 18:09:42 +0000232- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on AIX 5.3
233 with IBM's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1284289). This also closes SF
234 bug #105470: test_pwd fails on 64bit system (Opteron).
235
Guido van Rossum539c6622005-09-14 17:49:54 +0000236- Changes donated by Elemental Security to make it work on HP-UX 11 on
237 Itanium2 with HP's 64-bit compiler (SF patch #1225212).
238
Georg Brandl4550b8d2005-08-26 06:43:52 +0000239- Disallow keyword arguments for type constructors that don't use them
Georg Brandl02c42872005-08-26 06:42:30 +0000240 (fixes bug #1119418).
241
Martin v. Löwisd35edda2005-08-24 08:39:24 +0000242- Forward UnicodeDecodeError into SyntaxError for source encoding errors.
243
Barry Warsawe2eca0b2005-08-15 18:14:19 +0000244- SF bug #900092: When tracing (e.g. for hotshot), restore 'return' events for
245 exceptions that cause a function to exit.
246
Raymond Hettinger9f1a6792005-07-31 01:16:36 +0000247- The implementation of set() and frozenset() was revised to use its
248 own internal data structure. Memory consumption is reduced by 1/3
249 and there are modest speed-ups as well. The API is unchanged.
250
Tim Petersde7990b2005-07-17 23:45:23 +0000251- SF bug #1238681: freed pointer is used in longobject.c:long_pow().
252
Michael W. Hudson0edc7a02005-07-12 10:21:19 +0000253- SF bug #1229429: PyObject_CallMethod failed to decrement some
254 reference counts in some error exit cases.
255
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000256- SF bug #1185883: Python's small-object memory allocator took over
257 a block managed by the platform C library whenever a realloc specified
258 a small new size. However, there's no portable way to know then how
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000259 much of the address space following the pointer is valid, so there's no
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000260 portable way to copy data from the C-managed block into Python's
261 small-object space without risking a memory fault. Python's small-object
262 realloc now leaves such blocks under the control of the platform C
263 realloc.
264
Michael W. Hudsonb8963812005-07-05 15:21:58 +0000265- SF bug #1232517: An overflow error was not detected properly when
266 attempting to convert a large float to an int in os.utime().
267
Raymond Hettinger3296e692005-06-29 23:29:56 +0000268- SF bug #1224347: hex longs now print with lowercase letters just
269 like their int counterparts.
270
Michael W. Hudson188d4362005-06-20 16:52:57 +0000271- SF bug #1163563: the original fix for bug #1010677 ("thread Module
272 Breaks PyGILState_Ensure()") broke badly in the case of multiple
273 interpreter states; back out that fix and do a better job (see
274 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-June/054258.html
275 for a longer write-up of the problem).
276
Michael W. Hudsondf888462005-06-03 14:41:55 +0000277- SF patch #1180995: marshal now uses a binary format by default when
278 serializing floats.
279
Michael W. Hudsonda85a902005-06-01 11:34:22 +0000280- SF patch #1181301: on platforms that appear to use IEEE 754 floats,
281 the routines that promise to produce IEEE 754 binary representations
282 of floats now simply copy bytes around.
283
Skip Montanarobbf12ba2005-05-20 03:07:06 +0000284- bug #967182: disallow opening files with 'wU' or 'aU' as specified by PEP
285 278.
286
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000287- patch #1109424: int, long, float, complex, and unicode now check for the
288 proper magic slot for type conversions when subclassed. Previously the
289 magic slot was ignored during conversion. Semantics now match the way
290 subclasses of str always behaved. int/long/float, conversion of an instance
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +0000291 to the base class has been moved to the proper nb_* magic slot and out of
Brett Cannonc3647ac2005-04-26 03:45:26 +0000292 PyNumber_*().
293 Thanks Walter Dörwald.
294
Barry Warsawc8d907c2005-04-19 23:43:40 +0000295- Descriptors defined in C with a PyGetSetDef structure, where the setter is
296 NULL, now raise an AttributeError when attempting to set or delete the
297 attribute. Previously a TypeError was raised, but this was inconsistent
298 with the equivalent pure-Python implementation.
299
Michael W. Hudson774479c2005-04-18 08:46:17 +0000300- It is now safe to call PyGILState_Release() before
301 PyEval_InitThreads() (note that if there is reason to believe there
302 are multiple threads around you still must call PyEval_InitThreads()
303 before using the Python API; this fix is for extension modules that
304 have no way of knowing if Python is multi-threaded yet).
305
Michael W. Hudsone3afc592005-04-07 10:11:19 +0000306- Typing Ctrl-C whilst raw_input() was waiting in a build with threads
307 disabled caused a crash.
308
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000309- Bug #1165306: instancemethod_new allowed the creation of a method
310 with im_class == im_self == NULL, which caused a crash when called.
311
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000312- Move exception finalisation later in the shutdown process - this
Anthony Baxter12b6f6c2005-03-29 13:36:16 +0000313 fixes the crash seen in bug #1165761
314
Raymond Hettinger96229b12005-03-11 06:49:40 +0000315- Added two new builtins, any() and all().
316
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000317- Defining a class with empty parentheses is now allowed
Brett Cannonf4189912005-04-09 02:30:16 +0000318 (e.g., ``class C(): pass`` is no longer a syntax error).
319 Patch #1176012 added support to the 'parser' module and 'compiler' package
320 (thanks to logistix for that added support).
Brett Cannon409d8f22005-03-05 06:47:57 +0000321
Martin v. Löwis96d743e2005-03-03 23:00:26 +0000322- Patch #1115086: Support PY_LONGLONG in structmember.
323
Raymond Hettingerb67cc802005-03-03 16:45:19 +0000324- Bug #1155938: new style classes did not check that __init__() was
325 returning None.
326
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000327- Patch #802188: Report characters after line continuation character
Martin v. Löwis4bf108d2005-03-03 11:45:45 +0000328 ('\') with a specific error message.
329
Martin v. Löwisff232d72005-03-03 09:24:38 +0000330- Bug #723201: Raise a TypeError for passing bad objects to 'L' format.
331
Michael W. Hudson8e1afab2005-02-17 14:55:21 +0000332- Bug #1124295: the __name__ attribute of file objects was
333 inadvertently made inaccessible in restricted mode.
334
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000335- Bug #1074011: closing sys.std{out,err} now causes a flush() and
Martin v. Löwis8e3ca8a2005-01-23 09:41:49 +0000336 an ferror() call.
337
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +0000338- min() and max() now support key= arguments with the same meaning as in
339 list.sort().
340
Raymond Hettingerc34f8672005-01-02 06:17:33 +0000341- The peephole optimizer now performs simple constant folding in expressions:
342 (2+3) --> (5).
343
Raymond Hettingera422c342005-01-11 03:03:27 +0000344- set and frozenset objects can now be marshalled. SF #1098985.
345
Michael W. Hudsonfaa76482005-01-31 17:09:25 +0000346- Bug #1077106: Poor argument checking could cause memory corruption
347 in calls to os.read().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000348
Jeremy Hyltonab630502005-02-04 18:44:06 +0000349- The parser did not complain about future statements in illegal
350 positions. It once again reports a syntax error if a future
351 statement occurs after anything other than a doc string.
352
Neil Schemenauercf52c072005-08-12 17:34:58 +0000353- Change the %s format specifier for str objects so that it returns a
354 unicode instance if the argument is not an instance of basestring and
355 calling __str__ on the argument returns a unicode instance.
356
Tim Petersf4e69282006-02-27 17:15:31 +0000357- Patch #1413181: changed ``PyThreadState_Delete()`` to forget about the
358 current thread state when the auto-GIL-state machinery knows about
359 it (since the thread state is being deleted, continuing to remember it
360 can't help, but can hurt if another thread happens to get created with
361 the same thread id).
362
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000363Extension Modules
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365
Georg Brandl43f08a82006-03-31 18:01:16 +0000366- Patch #1380952: fix SSL objects timing out on consecutive read()s
367
Neal Norwitz05a45592006-03-20 06:30:08 +0000368- Patch #1309579: wait3 and wait4 were added to the posix module.
369
Anthony Baxterfa869072006-03-20 05:21:58 +0000370- Patch #1231053: The audioop module now supports encoding/decoding of alaw.
371 In addition, the existing ulaw code was updated.
372
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000373- RFE #567972: Socket objects' family, type and proto properties are
Georg Brandl72d7a782006-03-22 06:44:14 +0000374 now exposed via new attributes.
Georg Brandlbc45a3f2006-03-17 19:17:34 +0000375
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000376- Everything under lib-old was removed. This includes the following modules:
377 Para, addpack, cmp, cmpcache, codehack, dircmp, dump, find, fmt, grep,
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +0000378 lockfile, newdir, ni, packmail, poly, rand, statcache, tb, tzparse,
Neal Norwitz10be10c2006-03-16 06:50:13 +0000379 util, whatsound, whrandom, zmod
380
381- The following modules were removed: regsub, reconvert, regex, regex_syntax.
382
383- re and sre were swapped, so help(re) provides full help. importing sre
Neal Norwitzefbeaef2006-03-16 06:40:39 +0000384 is deprecated. The undocumented re.engine variable no longer exists.
385
Hye-Shik Changabb903f2006-03-13 10:20:08 +0000386- Bug #1448490: Fixed a bug that ISO-2022 codecs could not handle
387 SS2 (single-shift 2) escape sequences correctly.
388
Martin v. Löwis480f1bb2006-03-09 23:38:20 +0000389- The unicodedata module was updated to the 4.1 version of the Unicode
390 database. The 3.2 version is still available as unicodedata.db_3_2_0
391 for applications that require this specific version (such as IDNA).
392
Neal Norwitzb62c4332006-03-04 18:35:47 +0000393- The timing module is no longer built by default. It was deprecated
394 in PEP 4 in Python 2.0 or earlier.
395
Guido van Rossum1968ad32006-02-25 22:38:04 +0000396- Patch 1433928: Added a new type, defaultdict, to the collections module.
397 This uses the new __missing__ hook behavior added to dict (see above).
398
Georg Brandldbd83392006-02-20 09:42:33 +0000399- Bug #854823: socketmodule now builds on Sun platforms even when
400 INET_ADDRSTRLEN is not defined.
401
Georg Brandlf4f44152006-02-18 22:29:33 +0000402- Patch #1393157: os.startfile() now has an optional argument to specify
403 a "command verb" to invoke on the file.
404
Neal Norwitz082b2df2006-02-07 07:04:46 +0000405- Bug #876637, prevent stack corruption when socket descriptor
406 is larger than FD_SETSIZE.
407
Neal Norwitz0e6bc8c2006-02-05 05:45:43 +0000408- Patch #1407135, bug #1424041: harmonize mmap behavior of anonymous memory.
409 mmap.mmap(-1, size) now returns anonymous memory in both Unix and Windows.
410 mmap.mmap(0, size) should not be used on Windows for anonymous memory.
411
Martin v. Löwis57a34e82006-02-04 19:12:37 +0000412- Patch #1422385: The nis module now supports access to domains other
413 than the system default domain.
414
Martin v. Löwis14694662006-02-03 12:54:16 +0000415- Use Win32 API to implement os.stat/fstat. As a result, subsecond timestamps
416 are reported, the limit on path name lengths is removed, and stat reports
417 WindowsError now (instead of OSError).
418
Gregory P. Smithcfc4a8d2006-01-29 19:46:23 +0000419- Add bsddb.db.DBEnv.set_tx_timestamp allowing time based database recovery.
420
Neal Norwitz62a21122006-01-25 05:21:55 +0000421- Bug #1413192, fix seg fault in bsddb if a transaction was deleted
422 before the env.
423
Martin v. Löwis11017b12006-01-14 18:12:57 +0000424- Patch #1103116: Basic AF_NETLINK support.
425
Neal Norwitz3b4fff82006-01-11 08:54:45 +0000426- Bug #1402308, (possible) segfault when using mmap.mmap(-1, ...)
427
Neal Norwitz88bbd732006-01-10 07:05:44 +0000428- Bug #1400822, _curses over{lay,write} doesn't work when passing 6 ints.
429 Also fix ungetmouse() which did not accept arguments properly.
430 The code now conforms to the documented signature.
431
Neal Norwitz5e3d8622006-01-09 06:24:35 +0000432- Bug #1400115, Fix segfault when calling curses.panel.userptr()
433 without prior setting of the userptr.
434
Neal Norwitz40c6b472006-01-05 05:43:35 +0000435- Fix 64-bit problems in bsddb.
436
Neal Norwitz8856fb72005-12-18 03:34:22 +0000437- Patch #1365916: fix some unsafe 64-bit mmap methods.
438
Hye-Shik Changc5c57e62005-12-12 11:48:32 +0000439- Bug #1290333: Added a workaround for cjkcodecs' _codecs_cn build
440 problem on AIX.
441
Georg Brandla13c2442005-11-22 19:30:31 +0000442- Bug #869197: os.setgroups rejects long integer arguments
443
Neal Norwitz0f46bbf2005-11-03 05:00:25 +0000444- Bug #1346533, select.poll() doesn't raise an error if timeout > sys.maxint
445
Neal Norwitz7b631792005-11-02 05:26:07 +0000446- Bug #1344508, Fix UNIX mmap leaking file descriptors
447
Neal Norwitzf3396542005-10-28 05:52:22 +0000448- Patch #1338314, Bug #1336623: fix tarfile so it can extract
449 REGTYPE directories from tarfiles written by old programs.
450
Gregory P. Smithe101df92006-01-24 20:09:45 +0000451- Patch #1407992, fixes broken bsddb module db associate when using
452 BerkeleyDB 3.3, 4.0 or 4.1.
453
454- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 4.4
455
456- Get bsddb module to build with BerkeleyDB version 3.2
Neal Norwitzfed9b3e2005-10-21 06:32:02 +0000457
Neal Norwitz484d9a42005-09-30 04:46:49 +0000458- Patch #1309009, Fix segfault in pyexpat when the XML document is in latin_1,
459 but Python incorrectly assumes it is in UTF-8 format
460
Georg Brandle677adc2005-09-29 13:40:49 +0000461- Fix parse errors in the readline module when compiling without threads.
462
Hye-Shik Chang9ceebd52005-09-24 14:58:47 +0000463- Patch #1288833: Removed thread lock from socket.getaddrinfo on
464 FreeBSD 5.3 and later versions which got thread-safe getaddrinfo(3).
465
Michael W. Hudson10402a32005-09-22 09:19:01 +0000466- Patches #1298449 and #1298499: Add some missing checks for error
467 returns in cStringIO.c.
468
Neal Norwitz058bde12005-09-21 06:44:25 +0000469- Patch #1297028: fix segfault if call type on MultibyteCodec,
470 MultibyteStreamReader, or MultibyteStreamWriter
471
Neal Norwitzcfe7dd92005-09-19 06:49:27 +0000472- Fix memory leak in posix.access().
473
Martin v. Löwis8b291e22005-09-18 08:17:56 +0000474- Patch #1213831: Fix typo in unicodedata._getcode.
475
Georg Brandlfb1ef852005-09-14 20:53:32 +0000476- Bug #1007046: os.startfile() did not accept unicode strings encoded in
477 the file system encoding.
478
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000479- Patch #756021: Special-case socket.inet_aton('255.255.255.255') for
480 platforms that don't have inet_aton().
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000481
Georg Brandld2e3ba72005-08-26 08:34:00 +0000482- Bug #1215928: Fix bz2.BZ2File.seek() for 64-bit file offsets.
483
484- Bug #1191043: Fix bz2.BZ2File.(x)readlines for files containing one
Georg Brandl02760f92005-08-25 13:10:41 +0000485 line without newlines.
486
Georg Brandl38387b82005-08-24 07:17:40 +0000487- Bug #728515: mmap.resize() now resizes the file on Unix as it did
488 on Windows.
489
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000490- Patch #1180695: Add nanosecond stat resolution, and st_gen,
Martin v. Löwisebd9d5b2005-08-09 15:00:59 +0000491 st_birthtime for FreeBSD.
492
Michael W. Hudson8137bea2005-07-27 20:24:40 +0000493- Patch #1231069: The fcntl.ioctl function now uses the 'I' code for
494 the request code argument, which results in more C-like behaviour
495 for large or negative values.
496
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000497- Bug #1234979: For the argument of thread.Lock.acquire, the Windows
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000498 implementation treated all integer values except 1 as false.
Georg Brandlaf410b52005-07-08 22:26:13 +0000499
Georg Brandl6b95f1d2005-06-03 19:47:00 +0000500- Bug #1194181: bz2.BZ2File didn't handle mode 'U' correctly.
501
Hye-Shik Chang5f937a72005-06-02 13:09:30 +0000502- Patch #1212117: os.stat().st_flags is now accessible as a attribute
503 if available on the platform.
504
Skip Montanaro5ff14922005-05-16 02:42:22 +0000505- Patch #1103951: Expose O_SHLOCK and O_EXLOCK in the posix module if
506 available on the platform.
507
Michael W. Hudsonb330adf2005-03-31 09:35:44 +0000508- Bug #1166660: The readline module could segfault if hook functions
509 were set in a different thread than that which called readline.
510
Raymond Hettinger4aec61e2005-03-18 21:20:23 +0000511- collections.deque objects now support a remove() method.
512
Raymond Hettinger984f9bb2005-03-09 16:38:48 +0000513- operator.itemgetter() and operator.attrgetter() now support retrieving
514 multiple fields. This provides direct support for sorting on multiple
515 keys (primary, secondary, etc).
516
Martin v. Löwisb60ae992005-03-08 09:10:29 +0000517- os.access now supports Unicode path names on non-Win32 systems.
518
Martin v. Löwisfd78a6f2005-03-04 14:37:01 +0000519- Patches #925152, #1118602: Avoid reading after the end of the buffer
520 in pyexpat.GetInputContext.
521
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000522- Patches #749830, #1144555: allow UNIX mmap size to default to current
Martin v. Löwis7fe60c02005-03-03 11:22:44 +0000523 file size.
524
Raymond Hettinger9c323f82005-02-28 19:39:44 +0000525- Added functional.partial(). See PEP309.
526
Martin v. Löwis9533e342005-02-27 20:33:25 +0000527- Patch #1093585: raise a ValueError for negative history items in readline.
528 {remove_history,replace_history}
529
Fred Drake9c131f22005-01-23 15:16:08 +0000530- The spwd module has been added, allowing access to the shadow password
531 database.
Martin v. Löwisc3001752005-01-23 09:27:24 +0000532
Martin v. Löwisfe33d0b2005-01-16 08:57:39 +0000533- stat_float_times is now True.
534
Raymond Hettingerb0900e62004-12-16 16:23:40 +0000535- array.array objects are now picklable.
536
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +0000537- the cPickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
538 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
539
Raymond Hettingerb2594052004-12-05 09:25:51 +0000540- itertools.islice() now accepts None for the start and step arguments.
541 This allows islice() to work more readily with slices:
542 islice(s.start, s.stop, s.step)
543
Skip Montanaro0af3ade2005-01-13 04:12:31 +0000544- datetime.datetime() now has a strptime class method which can be used to
545 create datetime object using a string and format.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000546
Matthias Klosed77f8b32006-04-03 16:34:56 +0000547- Patch #1117961: Replace the MD5 implementation from RSA Data Security Inc
Matthias Klose8e39ec72006-04-03 16:27:50 +0000548 with the implementation from http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmd5-rfc/.
549
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000550Library
551-------
552
Anthony Baxter93f5b932006-04-03 08:05:07 +0000553- The email module's parsedate_tz function now sets the daylight savings
554 flag to -1 (unknown) since it can't tell from the date whether it should
555 be set.
556
Fred Drakead5177c2006-04-01 22:14:43 +0000557- Patch #624325: urlparse.urlparse() and urlparse.urlsplit() results
558 now sport attributes that provide access to the parts of the result.
559
Georg Brandl7f6b67c2006-04-01 08:35:18 +0000560- Patch #1462498: sgmllib now handles entity and character references
561 in attribute values.
562
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +0000563- Added the sqlite3 package. This is based on pysqlite2.1.3, and provides
Georg Brandl828fdef2006-04-01 08:59:03 +0000564 a DB-API interface in the standard library. You'll need sqlite 3.0.8 or
Anthony Baxterc51ee692006-04-01 00:57:31 +0000565 later to build this - if you have an earlier version, the C extension
566 module will not be built.
567
Tim Petersc17976e2006-04-01 00:26:53 +0000568- Bug #1460340: ``random.sample(dict)`` failed in various ways. Dicts
569 aren't officially supported here, and trying to use them will probably
570 raise an exception some day. But dicts have been allowed, and "mostly
571 worked", so support for them won't go away without warning.
572
Georg Brandl338ef7d2006-03-31 18:42:16 +0000573- Bug #1445068: getpass.getpass() can now be given an explicit stream
574 argument to specify where to write the prompt.
575
Georg Brandl22ec80b2006-03-31 18:25:44 +0000576- Patch #1462313, bug #1443328: the pickle modules now can handle classes
577 that have __private names in their __slots__.
578
Neal Norwitz6974a512006-04-10 00:25:01 +0000579- Bug #1250170: mimetools now handles socket.gethostname() failures gracefully.
Georg Brandldd2245f2006-03-31 17:18:06 +0000580
Phillip J. Eby59821cf2006-03-30 02:16:40 +0000581- patch #1457316: "setup.py upload" now supports --identity to select the
582 key to be used for signing the uploaded code.
583
Raymond Hettingerfd3fcf02006-03-24 20:43:29 +0000584- Queue.Queue objects now support .task_done() and .join() methods
585 to make it easier to monitor when daemon threads have completed
586 processing all enqueued tasks. Patch #1455676.
587
Martin v. Löwisbd8dbab2006-03-23 18:18:35 +0000588- popen2.Popen objects now preserve the command in a .cmd attribute.
589
Thomas Hellerc61c0492006-03-22 10:09:27 +0000590- Added the ctypes ffi package.
591
Barry Warsaw4d90bbd2006-03-22 02:45:50 +0000592- email 4.0 package now integrated. This is largely the same as the email 3.0
593 package that was included in Python 2.3, except that PEP 8 module names are
594 now used (e.g. mail.message instead of email.Message). The MIME classes
595 have been moved to a subpackage (e.g. email.mime.text instead of
596 email.MIMEText). The old names are still supported for now. Several
597 deprecated Message methods have been removed and lots of bugs have been
598 fixed. More details can be found in the email package documentation.
599
Walter Dörwald40108c92006-03-27 08:15:44 +0000600- Patches #1436130/#1443155: codecs.lookup() now returns a CodecInfo object
601 (a subclass of tuple) that provides incremental decoders and encoders
602 (a way to use stateful codecs without the stream API). Python functions
603 codecs.getincrementaldecoder() and codecs.getincrementalencoder() as well
604 as C functions PyCodec_IncrementalEncoder() and PyCodec_IncrementalDecoder()
605 have been added.
Walter Dörwaldabb02e52006-03-15 11:35:15 +0000606
Walter Dörwald067db482006-03-15 22:17:27 +0000607- Patch #1359365: Calling next() on a closed StringIO.String object raises
608 a ValueError instead of a StopIteration now (like file and cString.String do).
609 cStringIO.StringIO.isatty() will raise a ValueError now if close() has been
610 called before (like file and StringIO.StringIO do).
Walter Dörwald197e8322006-03-15 22:13:13 +0000611
Martin v. Löwis04824ce2006-03-10 21:26:16 +0000612- A regrtest option -w was added to re-run failed tests in verbose mode.
613
Georg Brandle2b46772006-03-09 23:22:43 +0000614- Patch #1446372: quit and exit can now be called from the interactive
615 interpreter to exit.
616
Barry Warsawd3c38ff2006-03-07 09:46:03 +0000617- The function get_count() has been added to the gc module, and gc.collect()
618 grew an optional 'generation' argument.
619
Martin v. Löwisfbab90e2006-03-05 13:36:04 +0000620- A library msilib to generate Windows Installer files, and a distutils
621 command bdist_msi have been added.
622
Guido van Rossum1a5e21e2006-02-28 21:57:43 +0000623- PEP 343: new module contextlib.py defines decorator @contextmanager
624 and helpful context managers nested() and closing().
625
Martin v. Löwis415ed932006-02-27 19:56:30 +0000626- The compiler package now supports future imports after the module docstring.
627
Georg Brandl8f7c54e2006-02-20 08:40:38 +0000628- Bug #1413790: zipfile now sanitizes absolute archive names that are
629 not allowed by the specs.
630
Georg Brandlc98eeed2006-02-19 14:57:47 +0000631- Patch #1215184: FileInput now can be given an opening hook which can
632 be used to control how files are opened.
633
Georg Brandlc029f872006-02-19 14:12:34 +0000634- Patch #1212287: fileinput.input() now has a mode parameter for
635 specifying the file mode input files should be opened with.
636
Georg Brandl67e9fb92006-02-19 13:56:17 +0000637- Patch #1215184: fileinput now has a fileno() function for getting the
638 current file number.
639
Georg Brandl602b9ba2006-02-19 13:26:36 +0000640- Patch #1349274: gettext.install() now optionally installs additional
641 translation functions other than _() in the builtin namespace.
642
Georg Brandle4662172006-02-19 09:51:27 +0000643- Patch #1337756: fileinput now accepts Unicode filenames.
644
Georg Brandl7b4e7c22006-02-18 21:10:56 +0000645- Patch #1373643: The chunk module can now read chunks larger than
646 two gigabytes.
647
Georg Brandl21dd1af2006-02-17 13:35:13 +0000648- Patch #1417555: SimpleHTTPServer now returns Last-Modified headers.
649
Georg Brandlbd3bc4d2006-02-17 09:52:53 +0000650- Bug #1430298: It is now possible to send a mail with an empty
651 return address using smtplib.
652
Georg Brandl0e1abe22006-02-17 09:48:14 +0000653- Bug #1432260: The names of lambda functions are now properly displayed
654 in pydoc.
Georg Brandl501dd0d2006-02-17 09:45:40 +0000655
Martin v. Löwis00756902006-02-05 17:09:41 +0000656- Patch #1412872: zipfile now sets the creator system to 3 (Unix)
657 unless the system is Win32.
658
Tim Petersda1329b2006-02-27 16:50:01 +0000659- Patch #1349118: urllib now supports user:pass@ style proxy
Martin v. Löwis3e865952006-01-24 15:51:21 +0000660 specifications, raises IOErrors when proxies for unsupported protocols
661 are defined, and uses the https proxy on https redirections.
662
Georg Brandl531ceba2006-01-21 07:20:56 +0000663- Bug #902075: urllib2 now supports 'host:port' style proxy specifications.
664
665- Bug #1407902: Add support for sftp:// URIs to urlparse.
Georg Brandl89f35ac2006-01-20 17:24:23 +0000666
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000667- Bug #1371247: Update Windows locale identifiers in locale.py.
668
Neal Norwitzf60cd472006-01-14 07:05:13 +0000669- Bug #1394565: SimpleHTTPServer now doesn't choke on query parameters
Georg Brandl45ab2332006-01-13 17:05:56 +0000670 any more.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000671
Georg Brandl4edd9892006-01-13 16:59:46 +0000672- Bug #1403410: The warnings module now doesn't get confused
673 when it can't find out the module name it generates a warning for.
Georg Brandlb709c2c2006-01-20 09:07:35 +0000674
Martin v. Löwis412ed3b2006-01-08 10:45:39 +0000675- Patch #1177307: Added a new codec utf_8_sig for UTF-8 with a BOM signature.
676
Neal Norwitzab86f8e2005-12-23 21:44:36 +0000677- Patch #1157027: cookielib mishandles RFC 2109 cookies in Netscape mode
678
Neal Norwitz338e7862005-12-23 21:27:46 +0000679- Patch #1117398: cookielib.LWPCookieJar and .MozillaCookieJar now raise
680 LoadError as documented, instead of IOError. For compatibility,
681 LoadError subclasses IOError.
682
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +0000683- Added the hashlib module. It provides secure hash functions for MD5 and
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000684 SHA1, 224, 256, 384, and 512. Note that recent developments make the
685 historic MD5 and SHA1 unsuitable for cryptographic-strength applications.
686 In <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058850.html>
687 Ronald L. Rivest offered this advice for Python:
688
689 "The consensus of researchers in this area (at least as
690 expressed at the NIST Hash Function Workshop 10/31/05),
691 is that SHA-256 is a good choice for the time being, but
692 that research should continue, and other alternatives may
693 arise from this research. The larger SHA's also seem OK."
Brett Cannon3cbd0382005-12-16 22:49:23 +0000694
Fredrik Lundh7e0aef02005-12-12 18:54:55 +0000695- Added a subset of Fredrik Lundh's ElementTree package. Available
696 modules are xml.etree.ElementTree, xml.etree.ElementPath, and
697 xml.etree.ElementInclude, from ElementTree 1.2.6.
698
Martin v. Löwis307021f2005-11-27 16:59:04 +0000699- Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles.
700
Georg Brandl1f663572005-11-26 16:50:44 +0000701- Bug #1365984: urllib now opens "data:" URLs again.
702
Brett Cannonad07ff22005-11-23 02:15:50 +0000703- Patch #1314396: prevent deadlock for threading.Thread.join() when an exception
704 is raised within the method itself on a previous call (e.g., passing in an
705 illegal argument)
706
Brett Cannon5d0bf942005-11-02 23:04:26 +0000707- Bug #1340337: change time.strptime() to always return ValueError when there
708 is an error in the format string.
709
Georg Brandle8f24432005-10-03 14:16:44 +0000710- Patch #754022: Greatly enhanced webbrowser.py (by Oleg Broytmann).
711
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000712- Bug #729103: pydoc.py: Fix docother() method to accept additional
Georg Brandl8b813db2005-10-01 16:32:31 +0000713 "parent" argument.
714
Georg Brandlaa935172005-09-29 20:49:16 +0000715- Patch #1300515: xdrlib.py: Fix pack_fstring() to really use null bytes
716 for padding.
717
Georg Brandl80ba8e82005-09-29 20:16:07 +0000718- Bug #1296004: httplib.py: Limit maximal amount of data read from the
719 socket to avoid a MemoryError on Windows.
720
Matthias Klosef3f231f2005-09-20 07:02:49 +0000721- Patch #1166948: locale.py: Prefer LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG over LANGUAGE
722 to get the correct encoding.
723
724- Patch #1166938: locale.py: Parse LANGUAGE as a colon separated list of
725 languages.
726
Martin v. Löwis4ed67382005-09-18 08:34:39 +0000727- Patch #1268314: Cache lines in StreamReader.readlines for performance.
728
Brett Cannona783d062005-09-15 02:34:56 +0000729- Bug #1290505: Fix clearing the regex cache for time.strptime().
730
Martin v. Löwis5dbdc592005-08-27 10:07:56 +0000731- Bug #1167128: Fix size of a symlink in a tarfile to be 0.
732
Georg Brandl5a650a22005-08-26 08:51:34 +0000733- Patch #810023: Fix off-by-one bug in urllib.urlretrieve reporthook
734 functionality.
735
Martin v. Löwis8b595142005-08-25 11:03:38 +0000736- Bug #1163178: Make IDNA return an empty string when the input is empty.
737
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +0000738- Patch #848017: Make Cookie more RFC-compliant. Use CRLF as default output
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000739 separator and do not output trailing semicolon.
Georg Brandl532efab2005-08-24 22:34:21 +0000740
Georg Brandlb9256022005-08-24 18:46:39 +0000741- Patch #1062060: urllib.urlretrieve() now raises a new exception, named
742 ContentTooShortException, when the actually downloaded size does not
743 match the Content-Length header.
744
Martin v. Löwis0a5d4a22005-08-24 14:55:22 +0000745- Bug #1121494: distutils.dir_utils.mkpath now accepts Unicode strings.
746
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +0000747- Bug #1178484: Return complete lines from codec stream readers
748 even if there is an exception in later lines, resulting in
Walter Dörwalda05834e2005-10-09 19:38:21 +0000749 correct line numbers for decoding errors in source code.
Martin v. Löwis56066d22005-08-24 07:38:12 +0000750
Georg Brandl6d2b3462005-08-24 07:36:17 +0000751- Bug #1192315: Disallow negative arguments to clear() in pdb.
752
Martin v. Löwisb813c532005-08-07 20:51:04 +0000753- Patch #827386: Support absolute source paths in msvccompiler.py.
754
Georg Brandl649f8e72005-08-03 07:30:12 +0000755- Patch #1105730: Apply the new implementation of commonprefix in posixpath
756 to ntpath, macpath, os2emxpath and riscospath.
757
Guido van Rossum755149f2005-07-27 00:00:44 +0000758- Fix a problem in Tkinter introduced by SF patch #869468: delete bogus
759 __hasattr__ and __delattr__ methods on class Tk that were breaking
760 Tkdnd.
761
Georg Brandl5dbda752005-07-17 20:27:41 +0000762- Bug #1015140: disambiguated the term "article id" in nntplib docs and
763 docstrings to either "article number" or "message id".
764
Georg Brandla4a8b822005-07-15 09:13:21 +0000765- Bug #1238170: threading.Thread.__init__ no longer has "kwargs={}" as a
766 parameter, but uses the usual "kwargs=None".
767
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000768- textwrap now processes text chunks at O(n) speed instead of O(n**2).
Raymond Hettinger8bfa8932005-07-15 06:53:35 +0000769 Patch #1209527 (Contributed by Connelly).
770
Georg Brandl5c5fe2f2005-07-14 06:40:47 +0000771- urllib2 has now an attribute 'httpresponses' mapping from HTTP status code
772 to W3C name (404 -> 'Not Found'). RFE #1216944.
773
Georg Brandl9e43acf2005-07-04 17:16:07 +0000774- Bug #1177468: Don't cache the /dev/urandom file descriptor for os.urandom,
775 as this can cause problems with apps closing all file descriptors.
776
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000777- Bug #839151: Fix an attempt to access sys.argv in the warnings module;
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000778 it can be missing in embedded interpreters
Georg Brandl5284b532005-06-26 22:54:58 +0000779
Georg Brandl2f210b62005-06-26 22:09:06 +0000780- Bug #1155638: Fix a bug which affected HTTP 0.9 responses in httplib.
781
Georg Brandlfbff1bc2005-06-26 21:36:25 +0000782- Bug #1100201: Cross-site scripting was possible on BaseHTTPServer via
783 error messages.
784
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +0000785- Bug #1108948: Cookie.py produced invalid JavaScript code.
786
Raymond Hettingerda99d1c2005-06-21 07:43:58 +0000787- The tokenize module now detects and reports indentation errors.
788 Bug #1224621.
789
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +0000790- The tokenize module has a new untokenize() function to support a full
Andrew M. Kuchling7034f6b2006-04-01 10:50:08 +0000791 roundtrip from lexed tokens back to Python source code. In addition,
Raymond Hettinger68c04532005-06-10 11:05:19 +0000792 the generate_tokens() function now accepts a callable argument that
793 terminates by raising StopIteration.
794
Georg Brandl9166e1a2005-06-04 09:20:03 +0000795- Bug #1196315: fix weakref.WeakValueDictionary constructor.
796
Georg Brandl268e61c2005-06-03 14:28:50 +0000797- Bug #1213894: os.path.realpath didn't resolve symlinks that were the first
798 component of the path.
799
Skip Montanaro174dd222005-05-14 20:54:16 +0000800- Patch #1120353: The xmlrpclib module provides better, more transparent,
801 support for datetime.{datetime,date,time} objects. With use_datetime set
802 to True, applications shouldn't have to fiddle with the DateTime wrapper
803 class at all.
804
Martin v. Löwis55f1bb82005-03-21 20:56:35 +0000805- distutils.commands.upload was added to support uploading distribution
806 files to PyPI.
807
Walter Dörwalda6e8a4a2005-03-31 13:57:38 +0000808- distutils.commands.register now encodes the data as UTF-8 before posting
809 them to PyPI.
810
Raymond Hettinger267b8682005-03-27 10:47:39 +0000811- decimal operator and comparison methods now return NotImplemented
812 instead of raising a TypeError when interacting with other types. This
813 allows other classes to implement __radd__ style methods and have them
814 work as expected.
815
Raymond Hettingerbea3f6f2005-03-15 04:59:17 +0000816- Bug #1163325: Decimal infinities failed to hash. Attempting to
817 hash a NaN raised an InvalidOperation instead of a TypeError.
818
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000819- Patch #918101: Add tarfile open mode r|* for auto-detection of the
Martin v. Löwis78be7df2005-03-05 12:47:42 +0000820 stream compression; add, for symmetry reasons, r:* as a synonym of r.
821
Martin v. Löwis00a73e72005-03-04 19:40:34 +0000822- Patch #1043890: Add extractall method to tarfile.
823
Martin v. Löwisc72dd382005-03-04 13:50:17 +0000824- Patch #1075887: Don't require MSVC in distutils if there is nothing
825 to build.
826
Martin v. Löwis637431b2005-03-03 23:12:42 +0000827- Patch #1103407: Properly deal with tarfile iterators when untarring
828 symbolic links on Windows.
829
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000830- Patch #645894: Use getrusage for computing the time consumption in
Martin v. Löwisa4dac402005-03-03 11:39:45 +0000831 profile.py if available.
832
Martin v. Löwisdf37c8c2005-03-03 11:08:03 +0000833- Patch #1046831: Use get_python_version where appropriate in sysconfig.py.
834
Martin v. Löwisc5574e82005-03-03 10:57:37 +0000835- Patch #1117454: Remove code to special-case cookies without values
836 in LWPCookieJar.
837
Martin v. Löwis4ea3ead2005-03-03 10:48:12 +0000838- Patch #1117339: Add cookielib special name tests.
839
Martin v. Löwise869eb12005-03-03 09:46:07 +0000840- Patch #1112812: Make bsddb/__init__.py more friendly for modulefinder.
841
Martin v. Löwisf2a8d632005-03-03 08:35:22 +0000842- Patch #1110248: SYNC_FLUSH the zlib buffer for GZipFile.flush.
843
Martin v. Löwisdf241532005-03-03 08:17:42 +0000844- Patch #1107973: Allow to iterate over the lines of a tarfile.ExFileObject.
845
Martin v. Löwis8ed338a2005-03-03 08:12:27 +0000846- Patch #1104111: Alter setup.py --help and --help-commands.
847
Martin v. Löwis4afe1542005-03-01 08:09:28 +0000848- Patch #1121234: Properly cleanup _exit and tkerror commands.
849
Martin v. Löwisc2a0ac22005-02-24 20:22:10 +0000850- Patch #1049151: xdrlib now unpacks booleans as True or False.
851
Raymond Hettingerbab41432005-02-05 01:31:19 +0000852- Fixed bug in a NameError bug in cookielib. Patch #1116583.
853
Guido van Rossumd0641422005-02-03 15:01:24 +0000854- Applied a security fix to SimpleXMLRPCserver (PSF-2005-001). This
855 disables recursive traversal through instance attributes, which can
856 be exploited in various ways.
857
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000858- Bug #1222790: in SimpleXMLRPCServer, set the reuse-address and close-on-exec
Andrew M. Kuchling3a976052005-12-04 15:07:41 +0000859 flags on the HTTP listening socket.
860
Andrew M. Kuchlinge63fde72005-12-04 15:36:57 +0000861- Bug #792570: SimpleXMLRPCServer had problems if the request grew too large.
862 Fixed by reading the HTTP body in chunks instead of one big socket.read().
863
Tim Peterse3547fd2005-12-16 23:13:57 +0000864- Patches #893642, #1039083: add allow_none, encoding arguments to constructors of
Andrew M. Kuchling10a16de2005-12-04 16:34:40 +0000865 SimpleXMLRPCServer and CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler.
866
Martin v. Löwis1d11de62005-01-29 13:29:23 +0000867- Bug #1110478: Revert os.environ.update to do putenv again.
868
Thomas Hellerd6c6e222005-01-20 19:20:16 +0000869- Bug #1103844: fix distutils.install.dump_dirs() with negated options.
870
Martin v. Löwis22b457e2005-01-16 08:40:58 +0000871- os.{SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END} have been added for convenience.
872
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000873- Enhancements to the csv module:
874
875 + Dialects are now validated by the underlying C code, better
Georg Brandl7eb4b7d2005-07-22 21:49:32 +0000876 reflecting its capabilities, and improving its compliance with
Tim Petersecc6e6a2005-07-10 22:30:55 +0000877 PEP 305.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000878 + Dialect parameter parsing has been re-implemented to improve error
879 reporting.
880 + quotechar=None and quoting=QUOTE_NONE now work the way PEP 305
881 dictates.
882 + the parser now removes the escapechar prefix from escaped characters.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +0000883 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the writer now tests for numeric
Andrew McNamaraf69d94f2005-01-13 11:30:54 +0000884 types, rather than any object than can be represented as a numeric.
Andrew McNamara0f0599d2005-01-12 09:45:18 +0000885 + when quoting=QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, the reader now casts unquoted fields
886 to floats.
Andrew McNamaraf69d94f2005-01-13 11:30:54 +0000887 + reader now allows \r characters to be quoted (previously it only allowed
888 \n to be quoted).
Andrew McNamarac89f2842005-01-12 07:44:42 +0000889 + writer doublequote handling improved.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000890 + Dialect classes passed to the module are no longer instantiated by
891 the module before being parsed (the former validation scheme required
892 this, but the mechanism was unreliable).
893 + The dialect registry now contains instances of the internal
894 C-coded dialect type, rather than references to python objects.
895 + the internal c-coded dialect type is now immutable.
896 + register_dialect now accepts the same keyword dialect specifications
897 as the reader and writer, allowing the user to register dialects
898 without first creating a dialect class.
899 + a configurable limit to the size of parsed fields has been added -
900 previously, an unmatched quote character could result in the entire
901 file being read into the field buffer before an error was reported.
Andrew McNamara31d88962005-01-12 03:45:10 +0000902 + A new module method csv.field_size_limit() has been added that sets
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000903 the parser field size limit (returning the former limit). The initial
904 limit is 128kB.
Andrew McNamara7f2053e2005-01-12 11:17:16 +0000905 + A line_num attribute has been added to the reader object, which tracks
906 the number of lines read from the source iterator. This is not
907 the same as the number of records returned, as records can span
908 multiple lines.
Andrew McNamaraa08eecb2005-01-12 03:25:27 +0000909 + reader and writer objects were not being registered with the cyclic-GC.
910 This has been fixed.
911
Brett Cannone6539c42005-01-08 02:43:53 +0000912- _DummyThread objects in the threading module now delete self.__block that is
913 inherited from _Thread since it uses up a lock allocated by 'thread'. The
914 lock primitives tend to be limited in number and thus should not be wasted on
915 a _DummyThread object. Fixes bug #1089632.
916
Raymond Hettinger97db05d2005-01-07 08:15:41 +0000917- The imghdr module now detects Exif files.
918
Raymond Hettinger6065d322004-12-20 23:51:53 +0000919- StringIO.truncate() now correctly adjusts the size attribute.
920 (Bug #951915).
921
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +0000922- locale.py now uses an updated locale alias table (built using
923 Tools/i18n/makelocalealias.py, a tool to parse the X11 locale
924 alias file); the encoding lookup was enhanced to use Python's
Andrew M. Kuchling88b85822005-08-23 00:57:07 +0000925 encoding alias table.
Marc-André Lemburgbb4f1bd2004-12-10 21:58:14 +0000926
Raymond Hettinger3557f422004-12-07 12:02:02 +0000927- moved deprecated modules to Lib/lib-old: whrandom, tzparse, statcache.
928
Raymond Hettingera6b45cc2004-12-07 07:05:57 +0000929- the pickle module no longer accepts the deprecated None option in the
930 args tuple returned by __reduce__().
931
Brett Cannon84667c02004-12-07 03:25:18 +0000932- optparse now optionally imports gettext. This allows its use in setup.py.
933
Raymond Hettinger3489cad2004-12-05 05:20:42 +0000934- the pickle module no longer uses the deprecated bin parameter.
935
Raymond Hettinger1bc82f82004-12-05 03:58:17 +0000936- the shelve module no longer uses the deprecated binary parameter.
937
Raymond Hettinger6c92d762004-12-05 03:28:00 +0000938- the pstats module no longer uses the deprecated ignore() method.
939
Raymond Hettingerf3fa9462004-12-05 01:58:09 +0000940- the filecmp module no longer uses the deprecated use_statcache argument.
941
Raymond Hettinger664347b2004-12-04 21:21:53 +0000942- unittest.TestCase.run() and unittest.TestSuite.run() can now be successfully
943 extended or overridden by subclasses. Formerly, the subclassed method would
944 be ignored by the rest of the module. (Bug #1078905).
945
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000946- heapq.nsmallest() and heapq.nlargest() now support key= arguments with
Raymond Hettinger3b0c7c22004-12-03 08:30:39 +0000947 the same meaning as in list.sort().
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000948
Walter Dörwald36733692004-12-22 12:50:50 +0000949- Bug #1076985: ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` now calls ``read()`` only
950 once when a size argument is given. This prevents a buffer overflow in the
951 tokenizer with very long source lines.
952
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +0000953- Bug #1083110: ``zlib.decompress.flush()`` would segfault if called
954 immediately after creating the object, without any intervening
955 ``.decompress()`` calls.
Andrew M. Kuchling3b585b32004-12-28 20:10:48 +0000956
Skip Montanaro05885812005-01-16 20:48:27 +0000957- The reconvert.quote function can now emit triple-quoted strings. The
958 reconvert module now has some simple documentation.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000959
Walter Dörwaldaf3b39a2005-02-18 13:22:43 +0000960- ``UserString.MutableString`` now supports negative indices in
961 ``__setitem__`` and ``__delitem__``
962
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +0000963- Bug #1149508: ``textwrap`` now handles hyphenated numbers (eg. "2004-03-05")
964 correctly.
965
Walter Dörwaldbc8e6422005-04-21 21:32:03 +0000966- Partial fixes for SF bugs #1163244 and #1175396: If a chunk read by
967 ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` has a trailing "\r", read one more
968 character even if the user has passed a size parameter to get a proper
969 line ending. Remove the special handling of a "\r\n" that has been split
970 between two lines.
971
Walter Dörwalda47d1c02005-08-30 10:23:14 +0000972- Bug #1251300: On UCS-4 builds the "unicode-internal" codec will now complain
973 about illegal code points. The codec now supports PEP 293 style error
974 handlers.
975
Walter Dörwald78a78b02005-09-01 12:04:29 +0000976- Bug #1235646: ``codecs.StreamRecoder.next()`` now reencodes the data it reads
Walter Dörwaldc5238b82005-09-01 11:56:53 +0000977 from the input stream, so that the output is a byte string in the correct
978 encoding instead of a unicode string.
Greg Ward40407942005-03-05 02:53:17 +0000979
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +0000980- Bug #1202493: Fixing SRE parser to handle '{}' as perl does, rather than
981 considering it exactly like a '*'.
982
Walter Dörwald007f8df2005-10-09 19:42:27 +0000983- Bug #1245379: Add "unicode-1-1-utf-7" as an alias for "utf-7" to
984 ``encodings.aliases``.
Gustavo Niemeyer6fa0c5a2005-09-14 08:54:39 +0000985
Walter Dörwald09f0dd52005-11-21 19:10:07 +0000986- ` uu.encode()`` and ``uu.decode()`` now support unicode filenames.
987
Gustavo Niemeyer548148812006-01-31 18:34:13 +0000988- Patch #1413711: Certain patterns of differences were making difflib
989 touch the recursion limit.
990
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +0000991- Bug #947906: An object oriented interface has been added to the calendar
992 module. It's possible to generate HTML calendar now and the module can be
Walter Dörwald48d5e502006-04-01 07:57:00 +0000993 called as a script (e.g. via ``python -mcalendar``). Localized month and
994 weekday names can be ouput (even if an exotic encoding is used) using
995 special classes that use unicode.
Walter Dörwald58917a62006-03-31 15:26:22 +0000996
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +0000997Build
998-----
999
Neal Norwitz602d3392006-03-31 08:21:40 +00001000- Fix test_float, test_long, and test_struct failures on Tru64 with gcc
1001 by using -mieee gcc option.
1002
Martin v. Löwis86d66262006-02-17 08:40:11 +00001003- Patch #1432345: Make python compile on DragonFly.
1004
Martin v. Löwis856bf9a2006-02-14 20:42:55 +00001005- Build support for Win64-AMD64 was added.
1006
Martin v. Löwisa55e55e2006-02-11 15:55:14 +00001007- Patch #1428494: Prefer linking against ncursesw over ncurses library.
1008
Martin v. Löwisfd9a72a2006-01-08 10:07:33 +00001009- Patch #881820: look for openpty and forkpty also in libbsd.
1010
Martin v. Löwis64c33dd2006-01-03 07:42:14 +00001011- The sources of zlib are now part of the Python distribution (zlib 1.2.3).
1012 The zlib module is now builtin on Windows.
1013
Martin v. Löwisd5845ec2005-12-30 12:31:38 +00001014- Use -xcode=pic32 for CCSHARED on Solaris with SunPro.
1015
Martin v. Löwis147fbe52005-08-07 21:09:30 +00001016- Bug #1189330: configure did not correctly determine the necessary
1017 value of LINKCC if python was built with GCC 4.0.
1018
Trent Mick8321b422005-07-26 02:29:21 +00001019- Upgrade Windows build to zlib 1.2.3 which eliminates a potential security
1020 vulnerability in zlib 1.2.1 and 1.2.2.
1021
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00001022- EXTRA_CFLAGS has been introduced as an environment variable to hold compiler
1023 flags that change binary compatibility. Changes were also made to
1024 distutils.sysconfig to also use the environment variable when used during
Martin v. Löwisd7c795e2005-04-25 07:14:03 +00001025 compilation of the interpreter and of C extensions through distutils.
Brett Cannon08cd5982005-04-24 22:26:38 +00001026
Bob Ippolitoed233462005-03-29 13:47:59 +00001027- SF patch 1171735: Darwin 8's headers are anal about POSIX compliance,
1028 and linking has changed (prebinding is now deprecated, and libcc_dynamic
1029 no longer exists). This configure patch makes things right.
1030
Martin v. Löwise2713be2005-03-08 15:03:08 +00001031- Bug #1158607: Build with --disable-unicode again.
1032
Brett Cannon46d96232005-02-16 00:07:19 +00001033- spwdmodule.c is built only if either HAVE_GETSPNAM or HAVE_HAVE_GETSPENT is
1034 defined. Discovered as a result of not being able to build on OS X.
1035
Brett Cannon516592f2004-12-07 00:42:59 +00001036- setup.py now uses the directories specified in LDFLAGS using the -L option
1037 and in CPPFLAGS using the -I option for adding library and include
1038 directories, respectively, for compiling extension modules against. This has
1039 led to the core being compiled using the values in CPPFLAGS. It also removes
1040 the need for the special-casing of both DarwinPorts and Fink for darwin since
1041 the proper directories can be specified in LDFLAGS (``-L/sw/lib`` for Fink,
1042 ``-L/opt/local/lib`` for DarwinPorts) and CPPFLAGS (``-I/sw/include`` for
1043 Fink, ``-I/opt/local/include`` for DarwinPorts).
1044
Brett Cannon43802422005-02-10 20:48:03 +00001045- Test in configure.in that checks for tzset no longer dependent on tm->tm_zone
1046 to exist in the struct (not required by either ISO C nor the UNIX 2 spec).
1047 Tests for sanity in tzname when HAVE_TZNAME defined were also defined.
1048 Closes bug #1096244. Thanks Gregory Bond.
1049
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001050C API
1051-----
1052
Tim Petersc9d78aa2006-03-26 23:27:58 +00001053- ``PyMem_{Del, DEL}`` and ``PyMem_{Free, FREE}`` no longer map to
1054 ``PyObject_{Free, FREE}``. They map to the system ``free()`` now. If memory
1055 is obtained via the ``PyObject_`` family, it must be released via the
1056 ``PyObject_`` family, and likewise for the ``PyMem_`` family. This has
1057 always been officially true, but when Python's small-object allocator was
1058 introduced, an attempt was made to cater to a few extension modules
1059 discovered at the time that obtained memory via ``PyObject_New`` but
1060 released it via ``PyMem_DEL``. It's years later, and if such code still
1061 exists it will fail now (probably with segfaults, but calling wrong
1062 low-level memory management functions can yield many symptoms).
1063
Raymond Hettingerbeb31012005-08-16 03:47:52 +00001064- Added a C API for set and frozenset objects.
1065
Raymond Hettinger66517482004-12-03 11:45:13 +00001066- Removed PyRange_New().
1067
Walter Dörwaldd1c1e102005-10-06 20:29:57 +00001068- Patch #1313939: PyUnicode_DecodeCharmap() accepts a unicode string as the
1069 mapping argument now. This string is used as a mapping table. Byte values
1070 greater than the length of the string and 0xFFFE are treated as undefined
1071 mappings.
1072
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001073
1074Tests
1075-----
1076
Martin v. Löwis4d394df2005-01-23 09:19:22 +00001077- In test_os, st_?time is now truncated before comparing it with ST_?TIME.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001078
Hye-Shik Changaaa2f1d2005-12-10 17:44:27 +00001079- Patch #1276356: New resource "urlfetch" is implemented. This enables
1080 even impatient people to run tests that require remote files.
1081
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001082
1083Documentation
1084-------------
1085
Georg Brandl8cb30772006-01-20 09:34:29 +00001086- Bug #1402224: Add warning to dl docs about crashes.
1087
Georg Brandla3a93ae2006-01-20 09:14:36 +00001088- Bug #1396471: Document that Windows' ftell() can return invalid
1089 values for text files with UNIX-style line endings.
1090
Georg Brandl32252422005-09-14 20:42:00 +00001091- Bug #1274828: Document os.path.splitunc().
1092
Georg Brandl79c122f2005-08-24 07:31:33 +00001093- Bug #1190204: Clarify which directories are searched by site.py.
1094
Georg Brandl6f2bbd32005-08-24 07:26:55 +00001095- Bug #1193849: Clarify os.path.expanduser() documentation.
1096
Georg Brandlf13c4ba2005-08-02 10:28:08 +00001097- Bug #1243192: re.UNICODE and re.LOCALE affect \d, \D, \s and \S.
1098
Georg Brandl150db732005-07-18 08:53:17 +00001099- Bug #755617: Document the effects of os.chown() on Windows.
1100
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001101- Patch #1180012: The documentation for modulefinder is now in the library reference.
1102
1103- Patch #1213031: Document that os.chown() accepts argument values of -1.
1104
1105- Bug #1190563: Document os.waitpid() return value with WNOHANG flag.
1106
1107- Bug #1175022: Correct the example code for property().
1108
Georg Brandl40c71652005-06-25 21:08:46 +00001109- Document the IterableUserDict class in the UserDict module.
1110 Closes bug #1166582.
1111
Brett Cannonced04e02005-02-13 22:53:22 +00001112- Remove all latent references for "Macintosh" that referred to semantics for
1113 Mac OS 9 and change to reflect the state for OS X.
1114 Closes patch #1095802. Thanks Jack Jansen.
1115
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001116Mac
1117---
1118
1119
Hye-Shik Chang4e422812005-07-17 02:36:59 +00001120New platforms
1121-------------
1122
1123- FreeBSD 7 support is added.
1124
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001125
1126Tools/Demos
1127-----------
1128
Brett Cannonacde7342006-03-01 04:28:00 +00001129- Created Misc/Vim/vim_syntax.py to auto-generate a python.vim file in that
1130 directory for syntax highlighting in Vim. Vim directory was added and placed
1131 vimrc to it (was previous up a level).
1132
Georg Brandl56897312005-08-24 18:32:30 +00001133- Added two new files to Tools/scripts: pysource.py, which recursively
1134 finds Python source files, and findnocoding.py, which finds Python
1135 source files that need an encoding declaration.
1136 Patch #784089, credits to Oleg Broytmann.
1137
Georg Brandl379f99d2005-06-26 21:09:38 +00001138- Bug #1072853: pindent.py used an uninitialized variable.
1139
Martin v. Löwisab9ec162005-04-09 10:53:34 +00001140- Patch #1177597: Correct Complex.__init__.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001141
Barry Warsaw538561e2006-01-01 21:48:54 +00001142- Fixed a display glitch in Pynche, which could cause the right arrow to
1143 wiggle over by a pixel.
Raymond Hettinger4901a1f2004-12-02 08:59:14 +00001144
Skip Montanaroe5d7f7f2002-09-20 14:16:59 +00001145----
1146
1147**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**